He'd die in a week if he wan't into danger, out of grief.
He don't do notting else; it's what he was made for," he added, growing enthusiastic in speaking of the Huron.
"I know he is a brave and true-hearted Indian, and is greatly esteemed by the Moravian missionaries.

He hesitates at no risk when his friends are in danger." "Ef he does run risk dey don't catch him, 'cause he knows how to run and fight, and ish shmarter dan de Shawnees.

Where ish your parents ?" "My mother and sister happened to be absent on a visit to Falsington, which is fifteen or twenty miles distant from our place, while father, who is a Captain, is doing service somewhere on the frontier, in the American army.

How thankful indeed I am that dear mother and Helen were away, for they have escaped this terrible captivity." "You washn't left all alone ?" "Oh, no; there were several servants, and I saw them tomahawked, and heard their piercing cries." The captive covered her face, and her frame shook like an aspen at the remembrance of the dreadful scenes through which she had so recently passed.

It was several minutes before she recovered her self-command.
When she did, Hans Vanderbum proceeded with his questions.
"Dey burnt de place, I shpose ?" "Yes, yes; they destroyed everything." "I shpose your folks will feel bad when dey finds dese Shawnees have got you, won't dey ?" "Oh, yes, yes; do not speak of it." At this point Hans Vanderbum began to get a sort of dim, vague idea that his style of conversation was not exactly calculated to soothe the feelings of the unfortunate prisoner; so he determined, if possible, to make amends for it.